Kappel v. Police Bd. of City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• holding “[a]n administrative tribunal’s finding of cause for discharge commands respect [citation] and ‘substantial’ or ‘considerable deference’ [citation]”
• holding that the tribunal is not required to place - 22 - 1-18-2257 dispositive weight on evidence of an exemplary personnel record and “is not required to suspend, rather than discharge, an officer solely because he has provided numerous years of good service”
• police board may consider mitigating evidence but is not required to place dispositive weight in that evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).